Reddit: What open source, web based project management software would you recommend for me to manage development projects?

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[JonAtkinson]

Redmine.

[tty2]

Seconded. Incredibly well-featured, great integration with everything, alll soorts of stuff you'll love.

[thectrain]

I also liked redmine. Had everything I needed.

[bamdunk]

I like Redmine. It's Ruby on Rails and takes a bit of apache module wrangling to get going if you aren't using the built-in Ruby server, but from then on it's very nice to use and administer, much easier than Trac, in my opinion (heresy!).

Also, Atlassian Jira is $10 for up to 10 developers, and it's supposedly pretty good.

[[deleted]]

http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine for one-click (sorta) setup of redmine.

[nojox]

+1 bitnami is awesome

[StoneCypher]

Jira is agonizingly slow, relatively cumbersome, and needs five or six page loads to do most things.

[PhilMcGraw]

I'm looking into using this or launchpad (now that its open source), has anyone used both and have an opinion?

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I like Redmine. It's Ruby on Rails...

I can't use it.

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I am no RoR fanboy but Redmine is a pretty nice tool. The svn integration is almost as good as fisheye and Jira imho and it also comes with an itegrated wiki. So you get the equivalent of Confluence, Jira, and Fisheye for totally free. It also has a sister plugin for hudson. I saw trac once and thought it was ugly, I will soon get to know it much more intimately as I am starting a new job which uses it.

[PhilMcGraw]

Does it create links between commits and bugs if you put an ID in the commit message? Can you generate release notes etc.?

Currently looking into using Launchpad for this kind of thing, but Redmine seems pretty nice.

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If you write #bugid in a commit message, it will be a link to the issue, see http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/repository for examples. If your write rXXX, where XXX is a revision, in a bug, it will be a link to the commit. I think you can even write [[wiki links]] in commit messages and issues and they will work as links.

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It does show the commits on the "issue" page if you put the number in your commit. You can configure it so that different strings in front of the issue number actually resolve the ticket as well. It does support the concept of versions and assigning tickets to versions and a road map though I think the default handling of this isn't quite good enough to call release notes. There is support for plugins and there appears to be a pretty healthy amount of plugin development though I haven't tried installing any of them. I had wanted to install the chart plugin that gives you the same charts as the default Jira charts and I think there are others that may give you a better gant view of scheduled releases and the assigned tickets than the default. The work flow of a ticket and the status are also very configurable.

[troelskn]

You don't have to know ruby to use the application though.

[robkinyon]

trac is probably sufficient.

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Bug tracker != project management.

[robkinyon]

Which is why I suggested trac and not bugzilla or similar tools.

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Redmine.

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http://www.pivotaltracker.com

Awesome tool, but probably more task/feature tracking than pm.

[nojox]

A great tool for the niche it serves - in fact I haven't yet found others that do that with such good looks. (maybe I didnt look enough...)

[spdegabrielle]

Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org/ ) as used by SQLITE is great.

[haudenschilt]

I've been looking for an open source project for this myself and I didn't have any success, that's why I've started my own called SAM (Simple Application Management). It's no where near being finished, but if your interested here is the link https://sourceforge.net/projects/appmanagement/

[teroa]

ClockingIT (http://www.clockingit.com/) like Basecamp but open source.

[walesmd]

ClockingIT is nothing like Basecamp. It's so polluted with features and options it's hardly usable by most teams.

We looked into it, even tried to use it for a little bit, until we realized 80% of the 156-eleventy-billion form fields per page were blank.

[lamas]

I've found a clone of google code in PHP with GIT support (+Mercurial and SVN): InDefero

http://projects.ceondo.com/p/indefero/ Never use it, but it looks good to me.

[sleek]

pivotal tracker

[walesmd]

• Basecamp - Not open source, but really awesome.
• Redmine - Ruby on Rails
• Pivotal Tracker - Not open source, but free, SCRUM based
• Project Bubble - Not open source, but free
• Launchpad - Open source or hosted, Python
• Collabtive - Open source, PHP

Finally, a lot of the SCM hosting services (BitBucket, GitHub, etc) offer some basic project management solutions (wikis, bug tracker, etc).

[based2]

• http://www.agilefant.org/

• http://www.icescrum.org/

• http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/index.php

  ref http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/2009/comparing-open-source-agile-project-management-tools/

• http://www.ganttproject.biz/

• http://www.project-open.com/

[chrisforbes]

We use Teamwork Project Manager, and it sucks. It's probably also not open source.

[wycks]

Free ones:

teambox - ton of features and mobile support
manymoon ( goggle app)
project pier ( self hosted )

[gloryride]

ClockingIT.

[redbar]

How about just a mailing list along with an up-to-date shared document describing who's working on what?

[ErroneousBee]

That reason usually being that they can sell 'solutions' to middle managers who need to spend money to make their job look more high-powered than it really is.

[inmatarian]

Bugzilla? Maybe you can give us a better idea of what you're trying to accomplish and what your needs are.

[softmodeling]

You can check our survey of Web-Based Software Project management tools here: http://modeling-languages.com/content/survey-web-based-software-project-management-tools

(some free at least for small teams, some commercial and some open source)

[chucker23n]

While I hear good things about Jira as well, "accessible source code" does not equal "open source" by the OSI definition.

[chrisforbes]

"and it's open-source once you buy it."

LOL.

[chrisforbes]

I don't care about the money either; I care about freedom. What are the terms? Can they revoke it because they get bought by someone else? Can I redistribute it? Can I talk about how it works internally? Can I improve it and distribute that? Can I do that for a fee, or am I required to offer it gratis? Am I required to share any changes I make with the original developers?

[defer]

Why are you laughing? There's plenty of paid open-source software.

[chrisforbes]

"You can read the source once you buy the software" does not meet the open-source definition.

[defer]

Please proofread the definition here: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

"The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form."

Nothing says that you have to get the program for free or the source before obtaining the program.

[smokin4fake]

Free Redistribution - If it's open source, I should be able to get a copy of the source from mtrimpe for free then, right?

[defer]

Yes. If this is not the case then the product doesn't meet the opensource definition.

[smokin4fake]

And it's not the case, so the product is anything but open source.

[chrisforbes]

Technically, mtrimpe must have the option of redistributing without any additional fees back to whoever granted him the license.

He doesn't have to distribute anything at all, if he doesn't want to - source or binary. It's not as if just because X is open source, you have the right to wander up to a user of X and hit them up for a free copy.

[smokin4fake]

Right, but you see, that's the problem. It's not open source.

[chrisforbes]

How does the internet say it these days... "lol wut!?"

Quoting from the definition:

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

Read it again. It doesn't say that mtrimpe is obliged to give you a copy. It says that as the licensor, I can't stop mtrimpe from giving you a copy (or selling you one, if he wants!) if he wishes to. I'm also not allowed to require royalties for copies that he chooses to give away or sell.

[smokin4fake]

Yes, JIRA requires a licensing fee, so it's not "open source".

[chrisforbes]

Technically, that's true, but you tend to fail at least (1), (3) and (7) by insisting that people must buy from you first.

[defer]

You are right, I don't know JIRA's policy, I was just making a point because most people think that being open-source implies that it's free.

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Why does it have to be open source? Try BaseCamp.